David is a mathematical scientist who holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Sheffield. David spent his formative years in Niger, where he was exposed to the generosity of families and the power of community best practices and networks for those in extreme poverty.

David worked in business, writing software for banks, before tuning to a career in social impact. He embedded in a Kenyan university as a lecturer on a local salary. There he experienced first-hand the innumerable inequalities faced by talented individuals in low-resource environments.

In this African context, David first turned his mathematical skills to impact innovation to support digital and data inclusion in underserved environments and developed the collaborative innovation best practices that underpin IDEMS.